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Shared Glossary to Build Understanding of Concepts in

Capacity Development and its Results

 

We created this wiki so development practitioners and local partners

can build a shared glossary to improve the understanding and

practice of capacity development learning programs and results management.


 

This wiki is a dynamic resource that allows the development community to consolidate varying definitions for terms and concepts in capacity development. By finding commonalities in our thinking in these areas, we can further knowledge exchange and expand collaborative practice toward consensus-building in capacity development.

 

We encourage you to contribute your understanding of the listed terms, add new terms and definitions to the existing list, and/or add terms or concepts that you would like to be defined or discussed in this wiki.

 

1. Capacity Development:  Capacity development dominates international aid with more than $20 billion a year devoted to a range of activities, yet we have not met expectations. What do we mean by capacity development and related terms in today's climate as we shift from resource investment to knowledge management?

Key terms: capacity, capacity development, capacity factors, agents of change

 

2. Learning Programs:  Development learning is expanding beyond traditional offerings that target individual change to dynamic programs that target the diverse learning needs of groups and organizations. How do we now define learning and its methods in driving development impact?

Key terms: development learning, development learning activities, intermediate outcomes

  

3. Results Management:  Progress toward development goals is moving beyond reporting the outcomes of development learning activities to measuring institutional-level impact and group, network, community, or organizational learning. What is meant by a results focus and new participatory results practices?

Key terms: capacity indicators, results framework, results chain

 

4. Capacity Development Institutions:  Development institutions that deliver learning programs are evolving from providers of one-off trainings into global facilitators that help to shape the development agenda. How do we define these multilateral and bilateral institutions and their role in transforming the development landscape?   

Key terms: capacity development institutions, partners

 

For more information about this wiki or assistance, email capacity4change@worldbank.org.  

 

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